Bensalem man facing charges in $2k burglary

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Aug 30, 2012 at 12:01 AMAug 30, 2012 at 3:01 PM

Jo Ciavaglia @JoCiavaglia

Kenneth Glowania Jr. bragged to a drug rehab employee that he and his girlfriend would never get caught in the theft of more than $2,000 worth of items from a Bensalem home earlier this month, police said.

And he didn’t — until Tuesday.

That’s when Glowania, 22, of Hope Avenue was arrested by police and arraigned before Bensalem District Judge Leonard Brown on burglary, criminal trespassing, theft, conspiracy and related charges in connection with the Aug. 2 break-in. He was sent to Bucks County prison in lieu of 10 percent of $100,000.

An arrest warrant on identical charges has been filed for the girlfriend, Ashley Young, 22, police said.

Bensalem police allege that Glowania and Young broke into a home in the 800 block of Claremont Avenue by cutting through a kitchen window screen and climbing through an unlocked window. They stole video games, DVDs and jewelry, among other items, according to a probable cause affidavit.

Several days later, police said they spoke with the victim’s neighbor. She said she was on her front porch the day of the burglary and saw Young and a man — whom she later identified in a photo lineup as Glowania — walking down the street about 11 a.m. and going behind the victim’s home, where Young once lived.

The neighbor said she later saw them emerge from the back of the home and walk down Tyson Avenue holding a black bag, court records show. The couple didn’t have a bag with them when they arrived at the house, the neighbor said, according to court documents.

The neighbor told police she thought the behavior was “unusual and suspicious,” but brushed it off because Young had once lived there. She later said she found out the home had been burglarized.

On Aug. 8, the day after speaking with the neighbor, police went to Glowania’s home and were told he had checked into a drug rehab center in Middletown, police said.

Five days later, police interviewed an employee at the center. The employee said he was working Aug. 8 when a man told him that he and his girlfriend did a “job” in Bensalem, police said. The man also told the employee that he had “fooled” police and would never get caught, according to the affidavit.

The man, whom the employee identified in a photo lineup as Glowania, told the employee that he wore gloves and turned his head away when a neighbor looked at him so “she’d never be able to identify him,” court records show. Glowania also told the employee that he got “rid of the stuff,” according to the court records.